Deniz Restaurant

About Deniz Restaurant

Deniz Restaurant is a long-established seafood restaurant on İzmir's First Kordon waterfront in Alsancak, working under the slogan "the flavour from the sea". The restaurant says it was founded by Yılmaz Ramazan Çelikkaya and has been run with his sons Metin, Ercan and Sabri Çelikkaya since 1981. It shares its address at Atatürk Caddesi 188/B with the İzmir Palas hotel, which lists it among its services. In winter guests eat indoors, in a large hall seating 150 and a smaller hall seating 50; in summer a 200-seat open-air garden looks out over the sea. The restaurant says food writers and critics have repeatedly ranked it among Turkey's best for fish, seafood meze and calamari, and it is a regular choice for business lunches, group dinners and family meals. The set menus on its website give a sense of the cooking: seasonal salad, white cheese, two seasonal olive-oil dishes, fried calamari, seafood börek and fish köfte, with fried prawns, fish şiş, fish fillet and sea bream or sea bass on the larger menu, finished with dessert or fruit. The site also shares a recipe for Bostanlı-style fish kavurma. Lunch and dinner reservations are taken by phone on +90 533 145 81 99; the main line is +90 232 464 44 99.